Cruel Slashes of War Pensions
a Veteran Cruel Slashes of War Pensions President Roosevelt and Budget Director Douglas Play an April Fool Prank on the Veterans—Fake "Economy" in Saving on Pensions and Throwing Vast...
...of ArgenI tina has closed down Parliament 'until May and has decided that martial law shall remain in force...
...At Kdmnnton, N., Labor won 21 seats and the Conservatives seven...
...Do ll NOW...
...jod Iknows...
...In the mining districts of Not| tingham and Derbyshire, Labor in; creased its representation...
...My program for America: I Work hard, spend more and ; save your money...
...As parliamentary discussion of the Government's actions is thus a practical impossibility the Argentine Socialist Party has addressed a manifesto to the people of the Republic, in which attention is drawn to the grave economic situation of the country i This document points out that I the poorest and most numerous section of the population has no I food or won...
...The economic situation cannot :. tain more dis| quieting dimensions...
...First, the brutal cuts go far beyond anything expected by most of the Congressmen and Senators who temporarily abdicated their pension power...
...I'll match my private life with anv man's...
...Nof only are practically all the disabled men to be cut from the rolls, because 35 years after their war it will be hard to prove service-connected disease even where ft exists, but the widows' monthly pensions are to be reduced from |80 to $15, with $3 for each minor under 16, instead of the present $8...
...You'll nee it In The New Leader...
...Prosperity is just around the coiner...
...who so Ifgtally deported the copper minrr, into tho desert during the early days of the World War...
...Naturally there were plenty of pension abuses under the existing regime, where able-bodied cops, firemen, politicians, et al, are holding down good jobs and at the same time drawing big allowances as "totally disabled" veterans...
...Note: Horace was a Latin poet, not a Greek...
...Tn the Siiith, where Labor has fought for years against almost insuperable odd*, important successes were registered...
...At Adwlekle-Htreet (West Rid ing), a miner, Mr...
...Furthermore, the "service pensions" paid to Spanish war men 62 years of age or more, as a sort of old-age pension, are to be cut from the existing rates of from $30 to $50 a month, according to age, to a meager $6, the lowest figure allowed under the new law...
...Perhaps Roosevelt thinks the elderly and partly disabled veterans can work for hirri at $1 a day and their board...
...If this depresaion means capitalism in convulsions...
...About 20,000 World Wsr men, totally disabled, although not in line of duty, will have their allowances cut from $100 or more a month, to a measly The monthly pensions of the war-disabled range from $8 to $80, according to their disability, a heavy reduction from the existing rates...
...President Roosevelt the First...
...Senator Reed: "Mr...
...The workers of all colors, nationalities and language* hai e com mon Interests...
...Perhaps that's because he doesn't like the idea of volunteer service, but prefers conscripts in war as well as in industry...
...Fourth, the 15 per cent cut in the federal employees' wages also went further than Congress expected...
...Why, when I was at college I won a medal for translatisg Horace...
...I don't...
...The Spanish War Vets Second, special animus seems to animate Roosevelt in the case of the Spanish-American veterans, the survivors of the only 100-per eent volunteer army Uncle Sam ever raised...
...Right now, while the veterans of all wars are all stirred up, is the time to point nut the Socialist lesson...
...Don't wait...
...These bright remarks of the Senior Senator from Joe Grundy's state deserve to be preserved forever in the shining galaxy of im mortal remarks that have contributed to the hilarity of an Otherwise dreary world...
...At Slioeburyness (Essex), Labor I gained two seats, while at Sutton mid Cheam (Surrey) two gains brought the Labor representation to four...
...National and racial hates have emerged out of the depression in some countries...
...While there are only about 200,000 left of the 460.000 who served in the Spanish-Amertaan war, the Phillipines and the Boxer Relief Expedition, many thousands of them are feeble, elderly men with no other material resources than their small pensions, none of which exceed ,$72 a month (cases where the totally disabled man needs an attendant) and most of which run from $20 *» $50...
...Pill out and mail the blank below...
...There were two Labor gains at Thurnscoe (West Riding), and both s atu were won at Featherstone, giving Labor an 11 to I majority...
...At Mexborough, four seats were won out of five, giving a Labor majority ; while at Mnlby all five Labor candidates were successful...
...The same thing applies to many of the some 33,000 •Wows now on the roll...
...Also how it even has g'.ne so far, under the new regulations, as to take 10 per cent off the little $40 a month pensions b-ing paid to tho same 130,000 agel widows of the Civil War vcteians and from the pensions of the 25,000 survivors of the Union Army...
...to 2 majority...
...Another illustration of the danger of giving free reign to politicians linked up with capital, even behind a "liberal" facade...
...Czar Nicholas Ronanoff...
...Labor has also won its first seat, oi the West Suffolk County Council...
...Ho are our readers.' This issue will help to make Social...
...What is a man to do when he in nut of n iob...
...Consequently, finding them•¦?es cut to $6 a month they will have to appeal to the state and **y for relief...
...The rej actionary Government...
...I "Two chickens in every garage, a noble experiment in the pot and rugged individualism forever...
...Why don't they eat cake...
...What is it...
...Art Young, in our estimation the greatest Socialist cartoonist we have ever had in this country, hns drawn a smashing May Day cartoon...
...J The some...
...It is estimated by the Pen•ion Bureau that about 400,000 World War veterans, whose disabilities are partial and not directly traceable to war service, will be taken off the rolls on July 1, thns being thrown, in the case of the many thousands unemployed and with no resources, upon the tender mercies of charity or state and citv relief...
...ry now possible to consider torn* of the worst feature* *f the pension regulations proLtgstofl on April Fools' Day, ^der the authority conferred won President Roosevelt by National Economy Bui, by y, herd-boiled" budget diractor, Lewis Douglas...
...Innd it will help to bring Socialists into the party...
...Aim leader of thmiahi...
...Ladies and Gentlemen...
...The May Day number will stress this internationalism of the tollers of the t world...
...but these unworthies could have been cut off without giving Roosevelt and his man Friday from Among the power to wreak such hardj.i pi upon hundreds of thousands of persons, at the same time aiding to the unemployment difficulty with one hand while pretending ti relievent with the other...
...If there were i a government in the couotry alive to the necessities of the present I time and gifted with any forei sight it would fix its attention upon [such significant and disturbing facts as the prevailing unemployment and hunger, the high infant i mortality rate, the high percentage I of illiterates, and the distress on i he countryside, Our May Day Issue /*\ltl>ERS for the May Day num | ber of The New Leader are | coming in, Detroit being the first with a bundle of 250...
...can't find work and i has a starving family...
...Let Them Eat Cake [C FN'A TOR DAVID A REED <it Peennsylvania has the floor...
...Thst is the answer of Socialism to nationalism and its Fascist soul...
...Marie Antoinette...
...Argentine Socialists Protest BUENOS AIRES...
...Vastly llyitch ' Movl-dcx-Fleurs...
...I will get to Berlin if it costs me my last moujik...
...The rate Is 2hjr per ropy...
...There will be other cartoons, drawings and pictures, as well as articles by many Socialists...
...Under the new regulations the annual appropriations for Spanish war veterans and theii widows and semi orphan* are to be cut from about $110,000,000 to some 125,000,000, a far greater slash than in the case of the World War men...
...Ta-ra-tarrrarali...
...Socialism and internationalism will cure this deep disease...
...Why don't they go to work...
...Those included two gains, and give Labor a majority of to 8. At Ammanford, Labor won three seats out of five, and at Cwmamman four out of five...
...What are those people doing there, loafing on the streets (in front of closed Ford factories...
...The trouble with them is not that they are unemployed, but that they are unemployable...
...He is gat son of that manager of the Bjjthee Copper Co...
...e., those getting less than $2,000 a year), ought to stir the masses A statement by our Nationu) Executive Committee might be worth while...
...President, we have never got ourselves out of a depression by loafing...
...Henry Ford...
...The results are the surest indication of the nation-wide revolt against the National Government's reckless "economy" policy, which is hitting the local authorities with increasing force...
...We have only gotten out by hard work...
...We must also remember that Socialist Mayor Hoan i f Milwaukee made a big hit with the Spanish War men at their » 1 ¦ '-¦— — 1111 national encampment last August by declaring that in the future the government ought to ¦ «> the veterans more instead of less...
...Thomas R. Marshall...
...Of curse, these regulations can't stand for long, and may be modified even before July 1st, but in the meantime they have struck terror into the hearts of thousands of needy \etcians and their families...
...What, are the people crying for bread...
...So send in that bundle order...
...What this country need* is a I good five-cent cigar...
...most I be taken care of first under all circumstances...
...I In the North, Midlands and Wales, Labor progress was par•-...]„ Afroiifr...
...BRITISH LABOR PARTY SCORES HEAVY GAINS | AMOR gains, many of them ia districts which have never before returned Labor members, is the outstanding feature of the urban council elections...
...Hokui-Pokas "Saving" Third, in short, in "saving" •bout $400,000,000 a year for his hjg income tax-paying supporters, jjhe "miracle man" not only is reducing the buying power of hundreds 0( thousands of families but jJ«lso adding to the burdens of *e local tax-payers, since in msny "•tea, Including New York, the w«'fare laws provide that veterans, drawing federal aensions...
...A now J. I bib...
...The law of gravitation is still with us...
...Fascism is its epileptic phase...
...William H. Taft...
...Your order must reach us not later than April 26th...
...At Swinton and Pcndlebury four seats were gained, and at Westhoughton there were two gains...
...They take their place with remarks like these: "There is no such thing as being out of work, only being out of hire...
...We sre going to make this a humdinger issue...
...Senator Reed...
...Two seats gained at Swinton, in the West Riding, give Labor a IS...
...These facts, hooked up with s denunciation of the cutting of the underpaid federal men's wages (i...
...I "Spend now for prosperity...
...Moreover, the New Leader is | interested in building the Socialist I'arty...
...This means that after July 1st the city and state will have to increase their relief funds, but as the big capitalists only pay their "just share" of the local taxes they don't worry so much about that...
...This may be a new era, but there are some principles that still remain true...
...He-b-rt V. H-v-r...
...Rewards for Hi roc* Now is the time for the So 'alist Party to point out how the r ding class rewards the men it forced to fight for "democracy" and its investments in the World War, and the youths who volunteered in the Spanish War and helped start the United States on the road to becoming a great imperialistic power...
...Save your pennies and your I dollars will take care of themselves...
...a Veteran Cruel Slashes of War Pensions President Roosevelt and Budget Director Douglas Play an April Fool Prank on the Veterans—Fake "Economy" in Saving on Pensions and Throwing Vast Extra Burdens on Local Relief Agencies—A War Veteran Tells His Story...
...If we wait until public opinion has forced a modification of the new rule* it may he,, toe late to do much good...
...And then there in Fascism...
...Prom all parts of the country is heard the ; voice of desperation...
...J. Patrick O'Brien...
...and that is the only way we are going to get out of the depression...
...I have a close tic with the Greeks...
...the law of hard work ii atill with us...
...James John Joseph Walker...
...Henry Ford...
...J. Wordley, defeated the manager of his colliery At Abordare (Glamorgan), Labor swept the board, winning flv» wards...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 16
